Auger-handle



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H. SAGER AUGER HANDLE. No. 808,995. Patented Decv 9, 1884.

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HENRY SAGER, OF GIRABDVILLE, PENN SYLVANIA.

AUGER HANDLE.

QPECIFICA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No.308,995,dated December 9, 1884.

Application filed June 14, 1884.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, HENRY SAGER, of Girardville, in the county of Schuylkill and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Auger Handles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists of improvements in the construction of auger-handles,whereby it is designed to provide simple and substantial handleswith efficient means of preventing the auger from slipping out of the handle when pulling the chips out of the hole by the auger,

but at the same time allowing the auger to be readily detached when required for changing the angers, and being so that one arm of the auger may be readily detached and the other arm used,in the manner of a wrenclnfor turning the auger close in a corner, all as hereinafter fully described,

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is partly a side elevation and partly a sectional elevation of my improved angerhandle and part of the shank of the auger.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the part of the handle to be used for turning the auger in a cornelgtogether with apart of the auger-shank; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of part of the auger-shank.

To one arm, a, of the handle I permanently attach a short metallic tube, 1), having a mortise, 0', through it transversely to receive the flattened end (1 of the auger-shank, and being tapped at e to form a screw-threaded socket, by which to detachably connect the arm f of the handle, said arm f having screw-threaded end 7c and a center pin, 9, projecting from the end which enters the socket, and extending (No model.)

through a hole, t, in the auger'shank into a socket, h, of the arm a, for securing the auger against pulling out of the handle when pulling the auger out of the hole by the handle. The arm f may be fitted with a metallic ring, j, on which to form more substantial screwthreads 70 than the end of the wood handle would afford; and said ring may have a shoulder, Z, to be screwed firmly against the end of the tube 6.

It will be seen that the contrivance is very simple and calculated to make a substantial handle, besides the advantages it affords of greater security of the auger and of enabling the auger to be worked inacorner or near apartition without having to resort to a wrench, and to better advantage than it can be with a wrench.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The auger-handle comprising the two-part or armed handle, with one arm, a, fitted with a sleeve, 1), provided with an internal screwthread, 0, and with an angular passage, 0, intermediately of the inner end of said arm a and said screw-thread c, the other arm, f, having a reduced screw-threaded end, It, provided with a longitudinal pin, 9, fitting in a coincident socket, h, in the inner end of the arm a, said arm a being spaced apart from the reduced screw-threaded end it, to provide a passage through the handle or sleeve 7) thereof to receive the fiat-ended auger-sha-nk,said shank having a transverse aperture, 6, to receive and permit the passage through it of the pin 9, substantially as set forth.

HENRY SAGER.

Witnesses:

Wnsrr Lone, FRANK MoINTYRn. 

